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Mr Zhao Lin of the Institute of China Supervision could have used a more subtle approach, even borrowing from the Bible: "Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone." However, his article on the website of the Chinese Communist Party’s top corruption investigation group, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, reminds of the rather blunt approach of a two-fisted spin doctor. Zhao uses the - in China highly popular - episodes of the Netflix production "House of Cards" to depict the U.S. and the Western world as the mother of all evil, and corruption in particular. Had he applied a more differentiated approach, as Bree Feng rightly states in his article in the New York Times, his observations would have less the smell of propaganda but of a valid assessment.

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